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UAE Cabinet Approves World-First Plan to Run 50% of Government Services on Agentic AI Within Two Years

The UAE just made the most consequential government commitment to agentic AI in history. On April 23, 2026, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that 50% of UAE federal government sectors, services, and operations will run on autonomous agentic AI models within two years — targeting April 2028 as the deadline. This isn’t a pilot program or a strategy document. It’s a Cabinet-level mandate from the VP and Prime Minister of the UAE, issued under directives from President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. It’s the first national government to put a hard percentage target on autonomous AI deployment at this scale. ...

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DARPA Launches MATHBAC Program — Building a Formal Science of AI-to-AI Communication

AI agents can already talk to each other. The problem is they don’t have a shared language — and DARPA just decided that’s a scientific problem worth solving with federal money. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched MATHBAC — Machine-Assisted Theoretical Breakthroughs via Agent Collaboration — a new research program aimed at developing a formal science of AI-to-AI communication to accelerate scientific discovery. Up to $2 million in funding is available, and UCLA has already been awarded a $5 million DARPA contract as part of the broader initiative. ...

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'Raise a Lobster': How OpenClaw Became China's Cultural Craze and Economic Movement

In China right now, people are “raising lobsters.” Not the crustaceans — the AI agents. OpenClaw’s logo features a claw (get it?), and Chinese developers have enthusiastically extended the metaphor: nurturing, training, and deploying AI agents is “raising your lobster.” It’s charming, slightly absurd, and tells you everything about how differently OpenClaw’s rise has played out in China versus anywhere else. Fortune published a deep-dive this week on what’s happening, and the numbers are staggering. Token consumption at Chinese AI providers has surged 6x as OpenClaw adoption explodes. Online courses teaching people how to “raise” AI agents are enrolling hundreds of thousands of students. And most remarkably: the Chinese government is subsidizing it. ...